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Blue Pla

Fail

Prices span $7.93–$13.40, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Blue Pla is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 482 of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · −4 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£46K/yr40K searches / yr
90-day growth
-1.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
40%top-5 click share · 12 brands · 17 sellers

Flapen Score

Blue Pla against its category

The dotted line is the Business, Industry & Science average. Past it, Blue Pla is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Blue Pla market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Blue Pla 40K times last year and spent an estimated £46K. The top 5 brands take 89% of clicks. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

11.1% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 40K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 11.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -1.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £46K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
40K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-1.2%
Conversion, latest week
11.1%
Market size, estimated
£46Ka year
Top search term
blue pla18K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £10.50.

Listings sell for £10.50 on average, from £7.93 to £13.40. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £10.50 that is £1K to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£10.50under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£7.93–£13.40
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£3K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

90% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #58 within 3D Printing & Scanning. It carries 3,852 reviews at 4.51 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
90%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
10.6%
Average rank
#58in 3D Printing & Scanning
Average rating
4.51 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,852per listing
Listings tracked
39

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 5 launches as successful.

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 39 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
39 months

Products

Top Blue Pla products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 40% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£1K£3K£4K£6K1101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

12 rising

Sellers

17

Top-5 brand share

89%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

40%

Top 20: 83%

Open market

8%

  • ELEGOO27%
  • eSUN25%
  • SUNLU18%
  • 3DHoJor11%
  • JAYO7%
  • Inslogic3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (6 brands, 8%)

Demand

Blue Pla search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

900700NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3× · 9 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Blue Pla search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • blue pla18K/yr
  • blue filament7K/yr
  • blue pla filament6K/yr
  • pla blue6K/yr
  • pla filament blue4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Blue Pla

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Quality-Overall17%−0.10

Not very good

UTTER GARBAGE - DO NOT BUY

Print Quality14%+0.70

Poor print quality

i stead, you just print void space and your print is ruined

Will ruin you prints or you waste final meters

Adhesion/Stickiness14%−0.14

bed adhesion issues and warping

this means it gets stick in your spool

Size-Overall11%+1.49

some other brands seems to slip or just dont fit perfectly

Color11%−0.05

It also has a bit of a purple hue in my opinion

Love

Color26%−0.05

Great colour

Prints well, nice blue

The white is a clean, bright, and opaque colour, perfect for all sorts of projects, from prototypes to finished pieces that need a clean look

Quality-Overall25%−0.10

Good quality

Good quality PLA

the reviews were good so I went for it

Print Quality15%+0.70

Prints well, nice blue

Performance-wise, it's a dream to print with

Its prints really well

Value For Money13%+1.05

Good Value

good value for money

this was good value for their range

Efficiency4%+0.72

it works

Return

0.5% Return rate 60% Fixable by listing

Color45%█▃▇▆█▇

It also has a bit of a purple hue in my opinion

Functionality-Overall12%▅█▅▅▄▁
Print Quality10%▇█▅█▁▇

Poor print quality

i stead, you just print void space and your print is ruined

Will ruin you prints or you waste final meters

Compatibility-Overall6%▁▇▃▅▁█
Size-Overall5%▁▄▄▂█▁

some other brands seems to slip or just dont fit perfectly

FAQ

Common Blue Pla questions

Answered from the same tracked data.